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tions around the world. When the martial artists leap high over walls and across treetops, it’s like watching Peter Pan for the first time.

Words cannot truly evoke the marvelous spectacle of characters running across water like wingless cranes, or fighting each other from the tops of towering bamboo plants.

Director Ang Lee (“Sense and Sensibility”) describes Crouching Tiger as “a cross between Bruce Lee and Jane Austen.” His unique accomplishment is to combine westernized psychological depth with martial-arts liveliness and a Zen sense of transitory' world where no one (especially women) can enjoy a secure foothold-ideas crystallized in a stunning final image that, like so much in this double-edged film, is both hauntingly poignant and exhilaratingly kinetic. -

The film, scripted in Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles, is rated PG-13, and runs 120 minutes.

The Theatre will open at 7:30 p.m. at which time local talent Steve Eastham will be welcoming you playing his hammered dulcimer. Steve has traveled around the world and lived in England where he was a street performer.

His music is original, atmospheric and based on Eastern tunes. Come early to set the tone for this marvelous film, and stay just a little while after for coffee in the lobby.

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